The Hidden Savior: How the Islamic Mahdi Performs the Office of the Zoroastrian Saoshyant
The Future Restorer Who Awaits the End of the Age, in Two Religions Separated by Three Thousand Years eFireTemple "The Mahdi is one of us, of the people of my house. God will reform him in a single night. He will fill the earth with justice and equity as it was filled with injustice and tyranny." — Hadith of the Prophet, narrated by Abū Saʻīd al-Khudrī, in the Sunan of Ibn Mājah, Abū Dāwūd, and al-Tirmidhī "Astvat-ereta — the Saoshyant — shall arise from the waters of Lake Kasaoya, born of the seed of Zarathustra, a virgin's son.
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The Future Restorer Who Awaits the End of the Age, in Two Religions Separated by Three Thousand Years eFireTemple "The Mahdi is one of us, of the people of my house. God will reform him in a single night. He will fill the earth with justice and equity as it was filled with injustice and tyranny." — Hadith of the Prophet, narrated by Abū Saʻīd al-Khudrī, in the Sunan of Ibn Mājah, Abū Dāwūd, and al-Tirmidhī "Astvat-ereta — the Saoshyant — shall arise from the waters of Lake Kasaoya, born of the seed of Zarathustra, a virgin's son. He shall make creation deathless. He shall raise the dead. The dead shall arise as living men.
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Yasna · Avesta · Bundahishn
